Multiplatform Kotlin Game Engine
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KorGE is a modern multiplatform game engine for Kotlin. Features include:
- Visual editor
- KorGE offers a powerful editor embedded in IntelliJ IDE
- Bundle support
- Easily add sourcecode and resources via GitHub
- Debugger
- Live-debug your games
- 100% Kotlin
- KorGE is fully written in Kotlin and designed from the ground up to embrace modern and easy coding styles
- Real native multiplatform
- KorGE gradle plugin allows to target each platform natively: JVM for Android, JS for the Web and native code for iOS and Desktop
- Quick installation
- Install the KorGE IntelliJ Plugin or clone the “Hello World!” project and start making your own game in less than a minute
- Fully productive
- Since KorGE targets the JVM, you can develop your game, try it, debug it and test it using IntelliJ IDEA
- Tons of features
- KorGE is just the last layer of a larger stack (Korlibs) for multimedia development
- Small footprint
- KorGE has a very small footprint. It has no external dependencies and only uses the libraries available on each platform
For more information, visit:
KorGE and all the other korlibs in a single monorepo.
To use this version in other projects,
you have to publish it locally to mavenLocal,
and then use 999.0.0.999 as version:
./gradlew publishToMavenLocalIf you want to make changes and easily try things.
You can run the korge-sandbox module that runs
the src/commonMain/kotlin/Main.kt file;
you can make experiments there:
./gradlew :korge-sandbox:runJvm
./gradlew :korge-sandbox:runJs
./gradlew :korge-sandbox:runNativeDebug
./gradlew :korge-sandbox:runNativeRelease
./gradlew :korge-sandbox:runAndroidRelease
./gradlew :korge-sandbox:runIosDeviceReleaseTraditionally all the KorGE modules were published to central and their source code was available here, now they are available via kproject in these repositories:
- Basic Tweens & animators (Integrated in KorGE)
- https://github.com/korlibs/korge-swf
- Basic TileSet + TileMap functionality (Integrated in KorGE)
- https://github.com/korlibs/korge-ldtk
- https://github.com/korlibs/korge-tiled
- PNG, QOI, ASE, PSD, Native Decoders (Integrated in KorGE)
- https://github.com/korlibs/korge-image-formats/korim-jpeg (Pure Kotlin JPEG Encoder/Decoder)
- https://github.com/korlibs/korge-image-formats/korim-qr (Pure Kotlin QR Generator)
- MP3, WAV (Integrated in KorGE)
- https://github.com/korlibs/korge-audio-formats (MOD, XM, S3M, MIDI (WIP), OPUS (WIP))
- https://github.com/korlibs/korge-services/tree/main/korma-astar (AStar (A*) for finding paths in 2D grids)
- https://github.com/korlibs/korge-k3d/ (3D support on top of KorGE)
- https://github.com/korlibs/korge-lipsync (Rhubarb LipSync integration with resource processor)
- https://github.com/korlibs/korge-parallax (Pseudo 3D Parallax Effect)
- https://github.com/korlibs/korge-ext/tree/main/korge-ktree (Old KTree serialization)
- https://github.com/korlibs/korge-ext/tree/main/korge-masked-view (Old Masked View (now we can use
view.mask)) - https://github.com/korlibs/korge-ext/tree/main/korge-text2 (Old Text engine)
- https://github.com/korlibs/korge-ext/tree/main/korge-bus (Bus / SyncBus)
- https://github.com/korlibs/korge-ext/tree/main/korge-frameblock (
frameBlock(60.fps) { while (true) frame() }utility function) - https://github.com/korlibs/korge-ext/tree/main/korge-length (Support physical-based units: cm, inches, percentages, etc.)